"ARGHHHHH!" screams the tongueless man as he gives one final spasm and his chest bursts open from inside! Emerging from him is a small hideous half-gnoll, half-human looking infant, sporting yellow eyes and long claws. It hisses at all of you and starts devouring the dead priest!

In the cages, the man is slumped over, moaning. If you get close he tries to speak, but his tongue has been cruelly cut from his mouth! Still he scratches in the dirt near the cage the words 'PRIEST. SARANRAE. KELLIS.'

The other cage holds a woman whose eyes stare and see little as she drools against the bars. It looks as if her mind has broken against the horror she has seen.

The skum giant grunts. "It oozes through the sky, filled with colors too terrible to understand. The light leeches the will to live, draining those it touches. It came from some alien sky, and it dissolves those it touches." The great skum giant shudders. "It is a terror beyond any from the deep ocean. It cannot be fought, only fled from. It devoured our wives. It will devour us if we stay, but we are honorbound to stay. So we will die."

It's the last one on the list of Pilot tricks - Turn in Place. The ship does not move but instead can turn to face any direction. If the ship has a maneuverability of clumsy, it takes a –4 penalty to its AC and TL until the start of the next round. If it has a maneuverability of poor, it instead takes a –2 penalty to its AC and TL until the start of the next round. Ships with a maneuverability of average or better do not take a penalty. This stunt doesn’t require a skill check.

"STOLEN?!?" the skum giant bellows. "We STEAL nothing! We have an ancient AGREEMENT with the folk of ILL-MARSH. We provide their fish harvests with bounty and protection and they grant unto us the firstborn female-child of their lines to become our brides. For countless generations since Undiomede's pact we have honored our side of the bargain. We would honor it still, save for the terrors that came from Beyond. Our kin are being held captive by some alien terror that we cannot fight in the Bay beyond the town. They toil there, building something terrible, while we hide here, kept hostage by the Colour. All is in disarray, intruders. All is anarchy." The giant skum slumps, looking defeated and depressed.

Ferabras carves the red gnoll to ribbons! Soran turns the yellow gnoll into a corpse with well-placed arrows! Mikail is forced to change to the gnoll menacing Hosh and stabs him hard in the kidneys, while Hosh's aim is temporarily off. Zolarus heals his friends!

The blue gnoll picks his way through the rubble to swing at Mikail, while the Orange one attacks Hoshiko!

Waiola is able to fire at the great bone ship and hits! The great bone ship fires its baleful eye cannon! Gunner:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
It hits, sending the ship shuddering for 4d8 ⇒ (2, 5, 2, 5) = 14 damage! 10 points of damage are absorbed by the shields, which are now down on the starboard side and 4 points hit the hull!

The largest skum seems to war with himself as he spots Caesare and hears his words. He growls, shaking his head. "Is this some new torment of the ooze? Are you some foul servant of the space-spawn?!?" He bellows!

You also recall the following: Skum do not age, and barring death by violence or disease, they can live forever. Unfortunately, this near immortality is crippled by the fact that skum are incapable of reproducing among themselves, for all skum are male. The aboleths did not want their slave race to prosper without their permission. Yet terribly, this does not mean that skum cannot breed. Originally created from human stock, skum can impregnate humans, and the children issued from such unholy unions are invariably deformed. Those who are not born skum undergo gradual transformations throughout their lives, and when they would normally die of old age, such hybrids instead go through “the change,” shedding their wrinkled flesh and transforming into one of the ulat-kini. While most skum tribes lack the drive to perpetuate their race and would prefer to languish in their hideous sunken ruins, tribes settling offshore of remotely populated coastlines seem to be on the rise. Some such communities raid villages for breeding stock, but a few more insidious tribes form alliances with these desperate folk, providing protection and bounty from the sea in return for wives.

Searching the room reveals only dessicated bodies and some small personal effects. It only serves to make the scene sadder.

Caesare creeps forward to the SE. Several shallow pools have collected on the floor of this chamber among a number of natural stone columns. Great smears of dried black ichor stain one wall above the corpses of two fishlike humanoids, obviously the victims of great violence.

Six more of the fishlike humanoids surround another larger fishlike humanoid. The larger one is scarred and marked with tattoos and sigils and the others seem afraid or in awe of him. He mutters to himself in Common, but you can only make out snatches. "Wives dead. Color caught. Must sacrifice more, but which one?" The other fishmen look nervous at this.

Paizo Inc., Paizo, the Paizo golem logo, Pathfinder, the Pathfinder logo, Pathfinder Society, Starfinder, the Starfinder logo, GameMastery, and Planet Stories are registered trademarks of Paizo Inc. The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Player Companion, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Tales, Pathfinder Battles, Pathfinder Legends, Pathfinder Online, Starfinder Adventure Path, PaizoCon, RPG Superstar, The Golem's Got It, Titanic Games, the Titanic logo, and the Planet Stories planet logo are trademarks of Paizo Inc. Dungeons & Dragons, Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron are registered trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., and have been used by Paizo Inc. under license. Most product names are trademarks owned or used under license by the companies that publish those products; use of such names without mention of trademark status should not be construed as a challenge to such status.